The History of Language
The History of Language
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The first step in this direction was to combine two or more of the primitive imitative or interjectional cries or linguistic gestures to indicate a combination of the ideas associated with them When this was done — when, for instance, hiss there hole meant, or might mean, ** there is a snake in that hole,'* or cuckoo here meant **the cuckoo has come,** cuckoo y etc., came to be real words instead of vague sentence-words, as in the pre-linguistic period, when the first sentence might perhaps hav...e been vaguely ex- pressed by the single word hiss.
At first the logical connection between the words of these primitive sentences must have been quite vague, and proba- bly the order of the words did not matter much — in short, the sentence had no form.
Word-order.— But even before the logical significance of word-order had dawned on the minds of the speakers, some sentences which had become stereotyped by incessant repetition must have settled down to a fixed word-order ; and when this had been carried out in a number of separate sentences, some more or less definite general principles must have been evolved.
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The first step in this direction was to combine two or more of the primitive imitative or interjectional cries or linguistic gestures to indicate a combination of the ideas associated with them When this was done — when, for instance, hiss there hole meant, or might mean, ** there is a snake in that hole,'* or cuckoo here meant **the cuckoo has come,** cuckoo y etc., came to be real words instead of vague sentence-words, as in the pre-linguistic period, when the first sentence might perhaps hav...e been vaguely ex- pressed by the single word hiss.
At first the logical connection between the words of these primitive sentences must have been quite vague, and proba- bly the order of the words did not matter much — in short, the sentence had no form.
Word-order.— But even before the logical significance of word-order had dawned on the minds of the speakers, some sentences which had become stereotyped by incessant repetition must have settled down to a fixed word-order ; and when this had been carried out in a number of separate sentences, some more or less definite general principles must have been evolved.
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